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The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain

Author : David Kemp
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554883474
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain written by David Kemp and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1992-01-12 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a famous queen of Britain really bured beneath platform 10 at King's Cross station in London? What is the telephone number of the National Theatre? what is the best place to eat in Worcester? Where is the National Bagpipe Museum? (Hint: not in Scotland) Was Pointius Pilate born in Pitlochry? The answers to these questions and literally thousands more are to be found in David Kemp's fascinating guidebook, The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain. Nowhere else will the discerning traveller find so much diverse and essential information about British culture gathered together in one volume. With the author as your witty and knowledgeable guide, take a tour through nearly fifty cities, from Penzance to Perth, from London to Cardiff and Belfast. Each city section begins with a concise, readable history and a guided walk around the town, planned to take in as many of the significant local sights as can comfortably be included. Next are exhaustive listings, including telephone numbers and addresses, of everything a culturally curious visitor might want to seek out: theatre, art galleries, museums, antique markets, antiquarian and other bookstores, restaurants, lcoal fairs and festivals and more. Finally, under the headings of Artistic Associations and Ephemera, each section concludes with an entertaining collection of local lore, gossip, legend and anecdote.

European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author : Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide,
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0300104847
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully produced volume is the first to survey the Metropolitan Museum's world-renowned collection of European furniture. One hundred and three superb examples from the Museum's vast holdings are featured. They originated in workshops in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, or Spain and date from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. A number of them belonged to such important historical figures as Pope Urban VIII, Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, and Napoleon. The selection includes chairs, tables, beds, cabinets, commodes, settees and sofas, bookcases and standing shelves, desks, fire screens, athéniennes, coffers, chests, mirrors and frames, showcases, and lighting equipment. There is also one purely decorative piece, a superb vase made for a Russian noble family who, according to one awestruck viewer, "owned all the malachite mines in the world." The makers of some of the objects are unknown, but most of the pieces can be identified by label, documentation, or style as the work of an outstanding European designer-craftsman, such as André-Charles Boulle, Thomas Chippendale, David Roentgen, or Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588393666
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors, Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide and Jeffrey Munger, are curators in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. They oversaw the recent reinstallation of the Wrightsman Galleries --Book Jacket.

The Athenaeum

Author : James Silk Buckingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

European Porcelain in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author : Jeffrey Munger
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396436
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book European Porcelain in The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Jeffrey Munger and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porcelain imported from China was the most highly coveted new medium in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe. Its pure white color, translucency, and durability, as well as the delicacy of decoration, were impossible to achieve in European earthenware and stoneware. In response, European ceramic factories set out to discover the process of producing porcelain in the Chinese manner, with significant artistic, technical, and commercial ramifications for Britain and the Continent. Indeed, not only artisans, but kings, noble patrons, and entrepreneurs all joined in the quest, hoping to gain both prestige and profit from the enterprises they established. This beautifully illustrated volume showcases ninety works that span the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century and reflect the major currents of European porcelain production. Each work is illustrated with glorious new photography, accompanied by analysis and interpretation by one of the leading experts in European decorative arts. Among the wide range of porcelains selected are rare blue-and-white wares and figures from Italy, superb examples from the Meissen factory in Germany and the Sèvres factory in France, and ceramics produced by leading British eighteenth-century artisans. Taken together, they reveal why the Metropolitan Museum’s holdings in this field are among the finest in the world. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

The Tastemakers

Author : Diana Davis
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066412
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Tastemakers written by Diana Davis and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the development, role, and influence of the British decorative art dealers who invented an Anglo-Gallic style for elite interiors. In this volume Diana Davis demonstrates how London dealers invented a new and visually splendid decorative style that combined the contrasting tastes of two nations. Departing from the conventional narrative that depicts dealers as purveyors of antiquarianism, Davis repositions them as innovators who were key to transforming old art objects from ancien régime France into cherished “antiques” and, equally, as creators of new and modified French-inspired furniture, bronze work, and porcelain. The resulting old, new, and reconfigured objects merged aristocratic French eighteenth-century taste with nineteenth-century British preference, and they were prized by collectors, who displayed them side by side in palatial interiors of the period. The Tastemakers analyzes dealer-made furnishings from the nineteenth-century patron’s perspective and in the context of the interiors for which they were created, contending that early dealers deliberately formulated a new aesthetic with its own objects, language, and value. Davis examines a wide variety of documents to piece together the shadowy world of these dealers, who emerge center stage as a traders, makers, and tastemakers.

French Style and Decoration

Author : Stafford Cliff
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500514009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book French Style and Decoration written by Stafford Cliff and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in larger format as: The French archive of design and decoration"--Colophon.

Country Life

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Author : Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066323
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum by : Gillian Wilson

Download or read book French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum written by Gillian Wilson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum’s significant collection of French Rococo ébénisterie furniture. This catalogue focuses on French ébénisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating from 1735 to 1760. These splendid objects directly reflect the tastes of the Museum’s founder, J. Paul Getty, who started collecting in this area in 1938 and continued until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection is particularly rich in examples created by the most talented cabinet masters then active in Paris, including Bernard van Risenburgh II (after 1696–ca. 1766), Jacques Dubois (1694–1763), and Jean-François Oeben (1721–1763). Working for members of the French royal family and aristocracy, these craftsmen excelled at producing veneered and marquetried pieces of furniture (tables, cabinets, and chests of drawers) fashionable for their lavish surfaces, refined gilt-bronze mounts, and elaborate design. These objects were renowned throughout Europe at a time when Paris was considered the capital of good taste. The entry on each work comprises both a curatorial section, with description and commentary, and a conservation report, with construction diagrams. An introduction by Anne-Lise Desmas traces the collection’s acquisition history, and two technical essays by Arlen Heginbotham present methodologies and findings on the analysis of gilt-bronze mounts and lacquer. The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu/publications/rococo/ and includes zoomable, high-resolution photography. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book, and JPG downloads of the main catalogue images.

French Accents

Author : Erin Swift
Publisher : Potter Style
ISBN 13 : 030798530X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book French Accents written by Erin Swift and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first step is to understand how the French see -- blending rich tradition with whimsy to achieve interiors that are as comfortable as they are stunning. Within these pages, stylist Erin Swift offers a look at the exquisite homes of renowned designers, architects and artists, simplifying the elements that define each room, such as colour, art and furnishings, objects and accents, structure and texture. Sharing the homeowner's visions, she also highlights hundreds of fascinating and unconventional decorating details from which you can draw inspiration. Galleries featuring dozens of choices for moulding, stone and tile flooring, frames, paint colours, doorknobs and textiles offer even more ways to add a French touch."--Publisher description.

Collection of Approximately 1,350 Catalogues

Author : Christie, Manson & Woods
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collection of Approximately 1,350 Catalogues written by Christie, Manson & Woods and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weekend Houses

Author : Penelope Rowlands
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811825434
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Weekend Houses written by Penelope Rowlands and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an intimate tour of 27 weekend escapes, revealing in wonderful detail both interior and exterior views, readers learn from the owners what makes each place special and why the perfect weekend home isn't limited to any one part of the country, nor is it defined by size or style of architecture. 255 color photos.

The Athenaeum

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Author : Gillian Wilson
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 089236050X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum written by Gillian Wilson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Paul Getty began to collect French decorative arts in the 1930s and continued to do so until his death in 1976. The Museum’s collection has continued to grow since then at a rapid pace and contains over three hundred individual pieces at the time this book is published. This volume illustrates fifty of them. The selection represents a cross section of the collection, which covers the period from approximately 1660 to 1800. In the eighteenth century it became fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and porcelain. This taste was catered to by the marchands-merciers, members of a guild who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, the antique dealer, and the picture dealer. These men devised highly ingenious settings for Far Eastern porcelains to adapt their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. Information about them and their clientele has been used in cataloguing the Getty Museum’s collection of mounted oriental porcelain, which is large and of high quality. This book is not a catalogue, nor is it a mere picture book or checklist. Each piece has been chosen because it represents a particular aspect of the crafts involved in the production of objects that were made by Parisian craftsmen for the crown, the nobility, and the rich bourgeoisie. The pieces are arranged in chronological order. Translations of the French archival extracts, an index, and a concise bibliography have been provided.

Philippe de Montebello and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author : James R. Houghton
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588393402
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Philippe de Montebello and the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by James R. Houghton and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art Nouveau in Fin-de-siècle France

Author : Debora Silverman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520063228
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Art Nouveau in Fin-de-siècle France written by Debora Silverman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the shift in the locus of modernity in fin-de-siecle France from technological monument to private interior. The text examines the political, economic, social, intellectual and artistic factors specific to the French fin-de-siecle that interacted in the development of art nouveau.